In the 1860's and 1870's Taranaki Māori were troubled by
Government determination to enforce European settlement of
traditional lands. Promised reserves did not eventuate and,
by 1866, dispossessed Māori...

Māori started trading with Europeans from the late 18th
Century: with Captain Cook’s crews in the 1770s,
Bellingshausen’s Russian expedition in 1820, D'Urville’s
officers and men in 1827, and whalers and sealers in the
1820s...